WEBVTT TAUNTON.SERA: THIS TRIAL IS MOVING ALONGVERY QUICKLY.IT WAS ONE WEEK AGO THAT OPENINGSTATEMENTS TOOK PLACE AND NOCLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE SCHEDULEDFOR THIS AFTERNOON.THE DEFENSE RESTED AFTERWRAPPING UP WITH ITS STARWITNESS.>> I DO.REID: A KEY WITNESS FOR THEDEFENSE BACK ON THE STAND TODAYIN THE TRIAL OF MICHELLE CARTER.PSYCHIATRIST DR. PETER BREGGINIS TESTIFYING ABOUT THEPLAINVILLE WOMAN'S STATE OFMIND.SHE'S ACCUSED OF ENCOURAGING ANDPRESSURING HER BOYFRIEND CONRADROY TO KILL HIMSELF, EVEN AFTERHE HAD SECOND THOUGHTS.BUT DR. BREGGIN ARGUES CARTER,WHO WAS 17 AT THE TIME, WASBATTLING HER OWN MENTAL HEALTHISSUES, AND AN ADVERSE REACTIONTO A LONGTIME USE OFANTI-DEPRESSANTS.>> I THINK SHE'S GOING THROUGH ALOT OF VERY WERID THINGS INSIDEHER HEAD.VERY DISTURBED THINGS, IN ANDOUT OF REALITY.REID: THE PROSECUTOR SPARREDWITH THE DOCTOR ABOUT WHETHERSHE EXPERIENCED WHAT IS LEGALLYCALLED INVOLUNTARY INTOXICATION,AND THE DOCTOR SAYS CARTER DIDNOT HAVE CRIMINAL INTENTIONS.>> SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS THISGRAND HELPING PERSON WHO WASGOING TO HELP HER BOYFRIEND GETWHAT HE WANTED, AND THEN HELPHIS PARENTS OVERCOME THEIR GRIEFAND MANAGE THIS WHOLE SITUATION,SHE WAS GRANDIOSE AND DELUDED TOTHAT DEGREE.REID: ONCE HE STEPPED OFF THESTAND THE DEFENSE RESTED ITSCASE.CLOSING ARGUMENTS WILL GETUNDERWAY AT 2:30.YOU MAY RECALL THAT CARTERWAIVED HER RIGHT TO HAVE A JURYHEAR THE CASE.IT WILL BE THE JUDGE ALONE WHOWILL RENDER A VERDICT.

Judge to announce verdict in texting suicide trial Friday

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Updated: 4:05 PM EDT Jun 15, 2017

TAUNTON, Mass. —

The judge in the texting suicide trial of Michelle Carter will announce his verdict Friday at 11 a.m., the judge announced Thursday afternoon.

Carter is charged with manslaughter in the 2014 suicide of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III.

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The judge will decide if Carter should be convicted of manslaughter for pushing her boyfriend to commit suicide.

Prosecutors said the then-17-year-old Carter pressured Roy to take his own life through a torrent of text messages. They said she told Roy to "get back in" his truck when he became frightened while trying to kill himself with carbon monoxide.